Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 08/30/03

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To: Stefan Malte Schumacher <s.schumacher@netcologne.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Hi,
    take a look at g4u/ It works really well

    http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

             ---Mike

    At 03:02 PM 30/08/2003 +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:

    >Hi
    >
    >Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
    >simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and
    >use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then
    >distribute the images around different computers on the network. I would
    >like to be able to something like this with FreeBSD. I have had a look at
    >Ghost 4 Unix but this is mainly oriented towards deploying images via the
    >network while I just want to store the files locally. The advantage of Ghost
    >and Ghost4Unix is that is is very easy to restore the system even if it so
    >messed up that it wont boot. How can I do this ?
    >
    >
    >Bye
    >Stefan
    >
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